Design of Monorail Systems
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You will receive 0.3 credit (CE) upon completion of this course.
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Course Description
Overview
This course provides guidance for the design of a monorail beam system. The design concept presented is for a manually-driven trolley hoist on a single beam or girder based primarily on the Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA) Specification No. 74. Deflection limitations, fatigue, and operational safety will also be discussed. Two case studies are presented to show the effectiveness of a well-planned overhead material handling system.
When this course has been completed, the reader will be familiar with the basic design of a single girder monorail system for bottom-running manual trolley hoists.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty questions at the end of this course to earn PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
State Board Acceptance
This course can be used by professional engineers to fulfill PDH requirements mandated by state and provincial licensing boards. Decatur Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing education in all states that pre-approve course providers. In all other states that mandate continuing education for engineers, it is the individual engineer's responsibility to determine the suitability of activities for PDH credit. The state boards typically accept online* courses that cover technical, managerial** or ethical content and which are relevant to the practice of engineering. The course must have a clear purpose or objective with a content that will maintain, improve or expand the skills and knowledge of the licensee's field of practice. For questions about your mandatory PDH requirements, visit the website of your state licensing board.
*Online courses are accepted by all state licensing boards that mandate continuing education. Other than New York (which limits online courses to 18 PDH) and Iowa (which limits online courses to 6 PDH), there are no limits placed by other states on the number of hours that can be earned through online continuing education. Consult with your state licensing board if you have any questions about the acceptability of online courses.
**The New York State Board of Engineers does not accept general office management courses, but will accept project management courses that are offered by an approved provider and that are technical in nature and contribute to the engineer's professional practice.
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This course provides guidance for the design of a monorail beam system. The design concept presented is for a manually-driven trolley hoist on a single beam or girder based primarily on the Crane Manufacturers Association of America (CMAA) Specification No. 74. Deflection limitations, fatigue, and operational safety will also be discussed. Two case studies are presented to show the effectiveness of a well-planned overhead material handling system.
When this course has been completed, the reader will be familiar with the basic design of a single girder monorail system for bottom-running manual trolley hoists.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty questions at the end of this course to earn PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
· The benefits of monorails relative to manual lifting, including increased productivity and reduction of injuries
· Information to provide on engineering drawings to improve operational safety
· The components of a safety plan for the operation of monorails
· Checklist of design criteria needed in the early stages of a monorail system design
· Monorail classification systems for frequency of service, load classes and load cycles
· Proper clearances, support location criteria, design of connections, deflection limitations and common structural shapes
· Loads to consider in monorail system design including dead load, trolley load, lifted load, collision forces, wind loads and forces due to skewing
· Calculation of load factors, including dead load factor and hoist load factor
· CMAA allowable stress equations
· Interaction equations for members subject to combined axial and bending stresses
· Fatigue design and allowable stresses for different service classes and joint categories
State Board Acceptance
This course can be used by professional engineers to fulfill PDH requirements mandated by state and provincial licensing boards. Decatur Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing education in all states that pre-approve course providers. In all other states that mandate continuing education for engineers, it is the individual engineer's responsibility to determine the suitability of activities for PDH credit. The state boards typically accept online* courses that cover technical, managerial** or ethical content and which are relevant to the practice of engineering. The course must have a clear purpose or objective with a content that will maintain, improve or expand the skills and knowledge of the licensee's field of practice. For questions about your mandatory PDH requirements, visit the website of your state licensing board.
*Online courses are accepted by all state licensing boards that mandate continuing education. Other than New York (which limits online courses to 18 PDH) and Iowa (which limits online courses to 6 PDH), there are no limits placed by other states on the number of hours that can be earned through online continuing education. Consult with your state licensing board if you have any questions about the acceptability of online courses.
**The New York State Board of Engineers does not accept general office management courses, but will accept project management courses that are offered by an approved provider and that are technical in nature and contribute to the engineer's professional practice.
More Information
| Language | English |
| Course Length | 3.00 hours |
| Duration of Access | 365 Days |
| Continuing Education Credits | 0.3 |
| Instructor | Self Study |
| Vendor | PDH Engineer (Read more about PDH Engineer accreditation.) |
| Course Certification | Certificate of Completion |
Price: $ 87.00 (USD)
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